Russia will continue targeting Ukraine's warehouses, manufacturing facilities, logistics hubs, and retail infrastructure, while its current production capacity allows it to launch around 100 ballistic missiles per month, according to Serhii "Flash" Beskrestnov, an adviser to the President of Ukraine on defense technology development.
"Last night we witnessed a very powerful ballistic missile attack on our production facilities and warehouses. And this will continue as long as the enemy has ballistic missiles," Beskrestnov said in a Facebook post.
He said Russia has recently broadened its target selection, striking food warehouses, building materials depots, retail facilities, and Ukrainian manufacturing plants rather than focusing on a single category of civilian infrastructure.
According to Beskrestnov, the current surge in missile attacks is partly being sustained by existing stockpiles, but Russia is likely to maintain a launch rate of approximately 100 ballistic missiles per month.
"By my estimates, the enemy is capable of launching around 100 ballistic missiles against us every month," he said.
Beskrestnov also warned that Russian forces frequently rely on local agents to identify targets by monitoring facilities, tracking vehicle movements, and passing information to Russian intelligence. He said a similar method was used in planning the attack on his own home.
"The enemy knows where our targets are located. They find someone—a traitor willing to work for a few thousand hryvnias—to watch what is happening at a warehouse," he said.
He urged Ukrainian businesses to diversify their operations by avoiding the concentration of large numbers of trucks and goods at a single location, using smaller warehouses, and redesigning logistics chains. Such measures, he said, would reduce the impact of Russian strikes and make it more difficult for Moscow to create shortages of goods in Ukraine.
